The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-09-24
ALL THE NEWS
OF WEST VIRGINIA RECORDED IN
BRIEF SPACE.
Incidents and Accidents and Matters
Miscellaneous.

in the Eastern Pan-h handle.
Charles Detamore, who lives on
the right fork of Salt Lick. Braxton |
county. was found dead in his room
at his fathers house on Wednesday
morning of last week.
Mrs. Sarah Shields, of Mason
county, while passing along lonely
path encountered large rattlesnake,
which after a hard and exhaustive
fight she managed to kill. 1t had
ten rattles and was six feet in length.
The Clements and Camden Guards,
two military companies recently or
ganized in Marshall and Marion
counties, will give a sham battle
during the progress of the Cameron
fair. 1t promises to be an attractive
feature.
Hamilton Daniels, of Tucker coun-
ty, who shot young man named
Charles Talbot, as he was running
away from his fDaniel's) melon
patch, has been released ON $4,000
bonds. Daniels had nearly all his
melons stolen.
Last winter DR. Hall OF Richie c.
II. lost SO pair Of gold speetacles.
One day this summer his hired girl
brought from the ice house large
cake of ice and 10 and behold, with
in that cake was the Doctors identi-
cal glasses, which had to be chopped
out.
The big suit of the Spring Garden
Bank against the Hulings Lumber
Company which involves about $685.
600 and 10000 acres of land in
Tucker and Randolph counties was
decided in favor of the plaintiff as
against the Hulings Lumber Com
pany.
On Elk river, a short distance
above Charleston, recently, while
some young men were serenading a
newly married couple, John Jordan
ran around the house and ran
against shovel-plow, disembowel-
ing himself Death ensued in a few
moments.
During a thunder storm G. f. Doc
ley, of Greenbrier, was shocked by a
bolt of Tightening which struck a
tree eighty yards Off His vest was
hanging on the tree with his watch
in the pocket. Upon examination
the watch case was found to be melt
ed but the vest was perfectly whole.
The residence of John Lowell, near
Parkersburg, was destroyed by fire
Monday night. The property was
valued at $4,000; insurance $500.
: With the house was destroyed the
entire trousseau of Mr.. Lowell
daughter, recently married, together
with all of her wedding mementoes,
valued at several thousand dollars.
, Liege Mourning, a confirmed som
nambulist, is now lying at the Point
of death, with no hopes of recovery,
, as result of his having fallen from
second-story front window of the
, Jail at Point Pleasant, Tuesday
. morning of last week, striking the
back Of his head, causing the blood
to pour from his eyes and ears.
; A company of gentlemen propose
to engage in the business of ship
) ping fresh meats from Ronceverte,
l Greenbrier county, to the city mar
kets. They will invest $4,000 in
r the business, and erect slaughter
pens and suitable buildings at or
near the town, soon as suitable To-
cation can be obtained A large
and profitable business is expected
and other enterprises are likely to
come from it.
About week ago a squad of Ital-
E ians, who are working on the Davis
railroad in Tucker county, started
from their camp to go to a deep hole
. i'll Blackwater, in which they intend
ed to set off dynamite cartridge,
and thereby secure nice mess OF
trout. The fellow who had the car
tribe in his trousers pocket, while
climbing over logs and rocks fell
hard and the cartridge was explod-
ed. His remains could have been
4 put in a cigar box. Several of his
u companions were stunned to uncon-
seriousness.
A man was arrested at Bridge.
o port, Harrison county, on Saturday
last for declaring that he was the
> man who set fire to Grafton and
Clarksburg, and was then preparing
: to burn Bridgeport. He gave his
:. name as William Edwards and was
!, quite drunk, when arrested, and he
admitted when questioned that he
. was only waiting for night to carry
out his plans of firing the town. He
was armed with gun and was very
i reckless in handling it. His state
ments are not believed, but he was
7 taken to Clarksburg, and confined in
i Jail.
, The Oceana (Wyoming county
= Necs notes the presence of Senator
! John E. Kenna in that locality. He
! is there on a fishing, hunting and
! amateur photographing tour. The
! Neaos says: s'Mr. Kenna will make
= several views of that strange freak
= of nature in our county at Pineville
: known as Rock Castle. Several days
! will be spent on the beautiful banks
= Of the Guyandotte, where his love Of
= piscatorial sport can be INDUCED in
= to the fullest extent, and where the
y scenery cannot be surpassed by the
best views along the famed New and
Green rivers"
On the 10th of April, 1886, Sarah
a Sink, girl about nineteen years old
: married Benz. Barnes, at his resi-
5 dence in Writ county. After few
u months of welded bliss she departed
u and weuded her way to Roane coun-
G ty, whore on April 4th, 1887, she
g married John Nida, under the name
of Maggie Sink. She was indicted
) tried and convicted CT bigamy and
sentenced to one years Imprisonment
= in the State Penitentiary. Rev
+ John w. Province and Rev. Samuel
+ F. Smith, officiating ministers, were
present, both marriage licenses were
. produced, and both husbands wit
4 messed the trial.